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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

January 20, 1996Fayette County, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 20, 1996, 4:05 AM EST for Fayette County, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 20, 1996, 4:05 AM EST (09:05 UTC)
Expired
Jan 20, 1996, 11:00 AM EST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fayette County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 57 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1996-01-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1996-01-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 19, 9:05 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZArmstrong, Butler, Fayette, Indiana, Westmoreland7 hr
Jan 19, 9:05 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZClarion, Forest, Jefferson7 hr
Jan 19, 9:05 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZVenango7 hr
Jan 19, 9:05 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZBeaver, Lawrence7 hr
Jan 20, 4:05 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZArmstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Venango7 hr
Jan 20, 4:05 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZBeaver, Lawrence7 hr
Jan 20, 4:05 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZIndiana, Jefferson7 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.